From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Drawing inside an opacity mask - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Drawing inside an opacity mask
In this exercise, I am going show you had add objects to on opacity mask. I will saved my progress as Empty opacity mask.ai and I am going to go ahead and scroll down here, so I can see the reflection. Now let's say I want modify the opacity mask, well, I look here to the transparency panel and I can't see it, in my case, you may be able to, if you are still working along with me but I can't see mine. Why is that? Well I don't have the right layer selected, so I click on it. Still can't see it and that's because I need to select that exact object that contains the opacity mask and that happens be the entire layer so I need to meatball it, like so and now I can see both the contents of the layer represented in the left-hand thumbnail and the layer mask represented in right-hand thumbnail. Now, the layer mask happens to be completely white, which means that I can see the entire contents of this layer. I am going click on the Opacity Mask to edit it. This is a very important step and…
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The many forms of transparency1m 29s
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Real-world blending modes7m 57s
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Exporting transparency from Illustrator6m 24s
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Opacity and blending modes6m 18s
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The Darken and Lighten modes7m 17s
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The Contrast, Inversion, and HSL modes6m 12s
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Blending modes in action5m 11s
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Creating a knockout group6m 13s
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Confirming the viability of your artwork6m 8s
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Introducing the opacity mask4m 6s
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Making an opacity mask5m 25s
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Drawing inside an opacity mask3m 33s
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Creating a gradient opacity mask5m 29s
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Adding an opacity mask to a single object3m 22s
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